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1. International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) - 3rd December 2019

   1981 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Disabled People and since then, 3rd December has been marked as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. The day aims to promote a better understanding of disability issues with a focus on the rights of disabled people and the gains derived from their integration into every aspect of the political, social, economic and cultural life of our communities.

2. Piltdown Man research on primetime TV

   LJMU’s Dr Isabelle De Groote appeared on the BBC’s primetime hit TV programme, The One Show, during a special feature on the famous Piltdown Man forgeries.

3. Neanderthals did not bury dead with flowers - research

   Professor Chris Hunt's research at Shanidar Cave in Iraq indicates early Man had strong burial rituals

4. A unique astronomical anniversary for the ARI: The Return of Comet Longmore

   Find out about how a comet discovered by an astronomer in the 1970s has been rediscovered by his son at LJMU over 40 years later

5. Michael Morpurgo Roscoe Lecture

   War Boy to War Horse

6. Background should be no obstacle to careers in Law!

   The Law Factor initiative is aimed specifically at increasing the diversity of young people who study and ultimately practice law.

7. Educational exchanges

   Unique UK and South African research partnership

8. Partnership puts students at heart of Albert Dock dig

   Liverpool's Albert Dock is set to be the backdrop for a high-profile LJMU archaeological dig later this month.

9. Discoveries of faint galaxies using supernovae

   Tom Sedgwick, PhD student at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), part of LJMU,has with a team of ARI astronomers discovered 140 ‘new’galaxies, with findings due to be published in April’s edition of the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

10. We interview the ISOC society during Islamophobia Awareness Month.

    Julia Daer, EDI Advisor and Ambar Ennis, VP Community and Wellbeing (JMSU) caught up with Khayyam Butt, President of the JMSU Islamic Society (ISOC), during Islamophobia Awareness Month.